Broom



(ModeL) L. PELTON.

. BROOM. No. 368,860. Patented Aug. 23, 1887.

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UNITED STATES LEANDER PELTON, OF HERNDON, IOWA.

BROOM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 368,850, dated August 23, 1887.

Serial No. 204,726. (ModeL) T0 aZZ whom it quay concern:

Be it known that I, LEANDER PEL'roN, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Herndon, in the county of Guthrie and State of Iowa, have invented an Improved Broom, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that kind of brooms in which metal covers the outside surface and top portion of the straw that is secured to the handle.

Heretofore various forms of metal covers and broom-heads have been used and various methods adopted to fasten the straw, the metal cover, and the handle together. Solid rivets have been passed through metal covers to clamp the straw and cover and handle together; bntin no instance has straw been first secured to a handle and the straw and handle then jointly combined with a metal cover by means of tubular rivets, as hereinafter set forth, for the purpose of savingtime and labor in making brooms, improving their strength and durability, and adapting them to be tied together in bunches without damaging the straw, as contemplated by my invention, which is pointed out in my claim and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whichm Figure 1 shows the broom-corn straw fastened to the handle. Fig. 2 shows the handle, straw, and metal cover combined. Fig. 3 is a sectional view.

A is a wooden handle.

B represents broom-corn straw placed around the lower end of the handle to overlap it and then tied securely to the handle by means-of a wire or cord. An unfinished broom can be thus speedily 'made from any quality of straw desired and adapted to be combined with a metal cover to produce a neat, strong, and durable finished broom.

G is a metal cover that has a neck or ferrule at its top slipped down over the handle and the top portion of the straw and then fastened to the handle and straw jointly by means of tubular rivets fixed in the lower portion of the metal cover and nails or screws passed through the top end of the cover into the wooden handle. In thus securing the lower edges of the metal cover together the broom-corn that encircles the handle is spread out flat and clamped fast between the opposite sides of the metal cover and also clamped fast to the lower end of the handle, to which the top end of the straws are tied in such a manner that wires or cords can be passed through the tubular rivets and complete metal-covered broom, as re quired, to facilitate bunehing them without damaging the straw.

I am aware that tubular rivets have been used in connecting the ends of splints in such a manner that a bail or loop could be inserted; but my manner of constructing a broom and combining tubular rivets therewith is novel and greatly advantageous.

I claim as my invention- In a broom, the combination of a handle having straw fastened to its lower end, a metal cover surrounding the straw, and tubular metal rivets extended through the straw and fastened to the metal cover at their ends, for the purposes stated.

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\Vitnesses:

G. J. BOYD, J. S. BOYD. 

